Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to the day " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a tradition here , dating back to the days of ‘ Go-Go County ’ , of First Division embarrassment if not failure but Rangers survived the early onslaught and , before an all-ticket 5,997 crowd on a clear mild night , emerged as worthy winners on aggregate after a goalless draw . |
| 2 | People did broadcasts , and if they wrote books , or gave talks on books , these books were all to be found in the BBC Library , along with a fine technical collection and an unrivalled political section , dating back to the days when Guy Burgess ran their first Parliamentary programmes . |
| 3 | After violent storms the haul will often include valuable items dating back to the days when drowned sailors on the local beach was commonplace . |
| 4 | ‘ Of course , Taiwan has a Portuguese connection dating back to the days when it was Formosa , but you wo n't have found any opportunity to air it these days . |
| 5 | Dinmore Manor is on the site of a Knights Hospital dating back to the days of the crusades . |
| 6 | With the briefest of intros emanating from somewhere in the swathe of dry ice , The Bunnymen arrived to polite applause and tore into a set devoid of any material dating back to the days of Ian McCulloch . |
| 7 | Originally Salcey was part of the chain of Royal Hunting Forests that stretched from Stanford to Oxford and dated back to the days of William the Conqueror ( 1066 ) . |
| 8 | Since May was seventy-two when his book was published , it is clear that many of his recipes must date back to the days of Queen Elizabeth 1st . |
| 9 | So , while there is no need to spoil the fun by trying to make an over-blown production out of your Christmas video , why not give a little time and thought to ways of showing the excitement leading up to the day itself . |
| 10 | Accordingly , as he leads up to the day of Pentecost , Luke is at greatest pains to maintain that the Spirit , who equipped Jesus for his mission , equips the disciples to carry it on . |
| 11 | Painted green outside , the inside contained the largest collection of secondhand books about Ireland in the world ( I should imagine ) , going back to the days of Swift and beyond . |
| 12 | Others , being anciently established , also have manuscript materials going back to the days of their foundation in the Middle Ages or the Tudor period . |
| 13 | It was — is , I should say — an old concern , going back to the days of coastal ketches and collier brigs , and was founded by the great-grandfather of the present chairman to bring coal from the Tyne to London . |
| 14 | A good many had worked there for years , some going back to the days of her grandfather . |
| 15 | Oh yeah yeah and they they keep er actually this album the reason it 's called I keep saying album we keep going back to the days of vinyl er the reason its called By Request over the last four of five years Telstar sent out a sort of feelers on different sleeves asking people if there were any songs that they might like to hear Foster and Allen sing . |
| 16 | I mean it going back to the days I think it was Professor Jode , it depends what you mean by class . |
| 17 | It has stuck to an antiquated way of operating that harks back to the days of guild power , and has refused to countenance criticism . |
| 18 | Another famous hillside figure harks back to the days when , according to legends , giants walked the land . |
| 19 | But you know erm if , if , if you look back to the days of the Raj erm it was a even within my living memory , erm people were joining the armed services or the overseas er er corp and the civil service overseas I suppose , yeah , er at a , at a fairly humble level and would either work their way up or they drink themselves stupid or they get mixed up with someone or they , you know but it was a , a , a recognized way of , of , of going , you know , either join the services or the |
| 20 | Jon , as he proudly watched the Union Jack raised above his head , must have thought back to the days when , as Oxford University Boat Race president , the only flag he looked at was the skull and crossbones which hung in his study with a menacing message written underneath : ‘ Death Zone — No Prisoners . ’ |
| 21 | Equating grade C with a pass was just historical , harking back to the days of the O-level , he explained , and the Government was keen to get away once and for all from the pass/fail idea . |
| 22 | It was no good harking back to the days of coming top in exams , the days of her violin teacher 's delight in her , his saying that really he would n't be surprised if she was good enough for Brussels or Prague . |
| 23 | It goes back to the days when people used to worship heavenly bodies as gods . |
| 24 | Another speculation is that this odd behaviour ( to humans ) is a genetically controlled one that goes back to the days of the giant ground sloths . |
| 25 | This goes back to the days when there were hop gardens at the rear of the pub , and picking was done by gipsy families ( shant being an old gipsy word , meaning to drink ) . |
| 26 | The very important interest JCI has in the diamond industry goes back to the days when Barney Barnato , together with Cecil Rhodes played an important role in the establishment of De Beers in Kimberley . |
| 27 | The difference , now partly traditional , goes back to the days of tithes , the payment to the Church of one-tenth of the produce of the parish . |
| 28 | ‘ You have to go back to the days of Brady and Hindley for an incident which compares to the horror . ’ |
| 29 | I wo , I would like to go back to the days of my youth when we at Hogmanay there was usually frost and and and ice , and er we used to celebrate it partly on skates and it was great fun when you skated perhaps a mile and a half out of the town , and er er had a lovely ice festival and then we skated back and we had |
| 30 | I mean we 're not going to go back to the days of the commonwealth and relying on you know , lamb from New Zealand all the time . |